A very small group of companies have the infrastructure required to train and serve a frontier model. They have a stranglehold on the compute/resources required for a new participant to break in.
And an overwhelming majority of enterprises running AI in production do so via one of two providers.
We'll like have an open-weight opus 5.5 class model we can run on (fancy) local hardware in a year or two at full perf, especially with AI optimized M7 macs. That's pretty distributed IMO.
Which brings us to the other decentralization issue we're running into: a 16GB stick of RAM might be $1500 by then.
The Chinese is still in control of it. If the Chinese gov decides no more open weight and stop financing those AI labs, rip your "AI distribution"
How is it decentralized?
Better start with decentralizing smartphones and their apps...